The Los Angeles advocate; vol. 1, no. 2, October 1967

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The Advocate, Hollywood. 1967, 12p., 8.5x11 inches, photos, ads, articles, calendar of events, mild toning at edges otherwise very good newsletter of folded sheets. Cover story on LA Cops and Gay Groups historic meeting. Photos of Jerry Joachim and Jim Kepner at the meeting. A column by Ladder editor Helen Sanders. The Advocate which began publication in 1967 as a newsletter of folded, unbound sheets, by 1968 had become a magazine-format pastebound newsprint and with volume 3 became a folded tabloid. The Advocate has run for nearly fifty years now and is arguably the leading LGBT periodical in the US